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Your Prospect Weekend Reads
Week of May 23rd
Stories from the week you don't want to miss!
DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS/AP PHOTO
A policeman talks to people asking for information outside of Robb
Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022, after an 18-year-old
gunman opened fire at the school, killing 21 people, 19 of them
children.
The Senate Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist
:
The Sandy Hook massacre was a decade ago, and the Senate has been doing
nothing but blocking any gun control measures since that time. If any
political body has ever forfeited its right to exist, writes Managing
Editor Ryan Cooper, it is the Senate.
If Republicans Win in 2024 By Fraud...
: If
the GOP steals the 2024 presidential election, Co-Founder and Co-Editor
Robert Kuttner offers one way to fight back: a mass tax revolt.
Blowing the Truck Whistle
:
Executive Editor David Dayen talked to former carbon dioxide delivery
driver Cyrus Coron, who describes his dangerous experiences on the job,
serious neglect, and rampant fraud at Airgas, the largest packaged gas
distributor in the United States.
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Heidi Heitkamp Lobbies Against a Democratic FCC
:
President Biden's nominee to the FCC, Gigi Sohn, is a progressive who
would bring the FCC back into Democratic control. Former Blue Dog
Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp is running a six-figure ad campaign to
block her nomination. Ramenda Cyrus has the story.
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How the Senate-Once, Long Ago-Banned Assault Weapons
:
Read Editor-At-Large Harold Meyerson on how commonsense federal gun
legislation was once an achievable outcome.
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